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When it comes to creatures of the deep, it’s not uncommon for us to rightly fear big baddies like sharks, but eels can be just as terrifying. Take the freaky-looking wolf eel, for example. The wolf eel is a rather large animal that burrows into rock crevices of varying depths, and it’s known for its powerful bite.

This bite is used for eating shellfish like mussels and clams. While they’re rarely aggressive, they have been known to have a taste for human flesh if provoked. While the diver in the video below escapes without getting bitten, knowing the eel could’ve probably taken his arm off if it wanted to makes him teasing it all the more nerve-wracking.

My two worst fears: deep water and terrifying predators.

According to the video description on YouTube, this particular diver has actually been nursing this wolf eel back to health for over a year. That might explain the pair’s curious relationship. For some reason, that doesn’t make it seem any less freaky to me.

This is not a drill, people! Shark fights are happening, and they’re as cool and deadly as you would expect.

Just ask fisherman Ryan Willsea, who caught one of these epic battles on his GoPro. He had a small hammerhead shark on his tuna line, when out of nowhere, a half-ton tiger shark attacked it, then sunk its jaws into the hammerhead shark’s side. The intense and toothy battle raged for only a moment before the tiger shark grew bored and floated away. Both animals seemed to survive their tiff.